Urban Development Institute

UDI Seminar: Building Smart Cities

March 12, 2019 - 7:15am - 9:30am

Pacific Ballroom- Fairmont Hotel Vancouver

900 West Georgia Street

Vancouver

BC

CPD Learning Units:

1.5

Smart Cities are rapidly evolving from futuristic aspiration to emerging reality. This has not gone unnoticed by local municipalities. Beginning with the City of Vancouver’s four-year digital strategy in 2012, and more recently with the City of Vancouver and City of Surrey’s recent win as a finalist for the top prize ($50 million category) of the Government of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge, cities are pivoting towards digital transformation.

As governments and local councils across the world embark on ambitious plans to transform their cities into Smart connected ecosystems, the building blocks required for this transformation are also being developed alongside. There are already a whole host of new technologies with the promise to transform the industry including BIM, various Information and Communication Technologies as well as Construction Technologies.

The success of a Smart City hinges on the combination of Smart policy, Smart infrastructure and Smart technologies. The industry will need to adopt an organic whole-building, whole-city approach to development in order to deliver the conceptual, functional and technological requirements of the Smart City paradigm.

Extensive coordination and collaboration will be key to creating the connected ecosystem of entities and services working towards a smarter future.